Course design and learning materials development within the Southern African context Are you involved in the challenging task of designing learning materials? Are you still excited about finding new ways of creating engaging text that achieves its purpose and stimulates learners to engage fully? This blog is for you and I hope to hear from you and share with you my current experiences and thinking. For the past 15 years I’ve been involved in designing and helping other design learning materials, and evaluating the finished products. The focus of my blog is on course design and learning materials development within the Southern African context. The central thrust in this blog is on finding innovative ways of overcoming huge obstacles to produce learning materials that will suit the specific contextual needs. http://www.oerafrica.org/Blogs/tabid/286/BlogId/12/Default.aspx en-US mongetlaka@icon.co.za Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:41:32 GMT Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:41:32 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.5.1.19887 How easy is it to use OERs to create a set of learning materials for use in another context? <p><span lang="EN-US">In March I visited Malawi to conduct a workshop for a group of nursing educators from the Kamuzu College of Nursing. The March workshop was the first step in a three months training intervention which aims to build the capacity of the nursing team to source, use, remix and adapt OER to suit their needs.<span style="">  </span><br /> </span></p><a href=http://www.oerafrica.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/286/EntryId/21/How-easy-is-it-to-use-OERs-to-create-a-set-of-learning-materials-for-use-in-another-context.aspx>More...</a> http://www.oerafrica.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/286/EntryId/21/How-easy-is-it-to-use-OERs-to-create-a-set-of-learning-materials-for-use-in-another-context.aspx http://www.oerafrica.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/286/EntryId/21/How-easy-is-it-to-use-OERs-to-create-a-set-of-learning-materials-for-use-in-another-context.aspx#Comments http://www.oerafrica.org/Home/Blogs/tabid/286/EntryId/21/How-easy-is-it-to-use-OERs-to-create-a-set-of-learning-materials-for-use-in-another-context.aspx Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:15:00 GMT 0 http://www.oerafrica.org/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=21